The 2021–22 Mestis season was the 22nd season of Mestis, the second highest level of ice hockey in Finland after Liiga. Therefore, this season there would be 14 teams.
Clubs Team City Home arena, capacity Founded Head coach FPS Forssa Forssa Ice Hall, 3,000 1931 Asko Rantanen Hermes Kokkola Kokkolan jäähalli, 4,200 1953 Jere Härkälä Hokki Kajaani Kajaanin jäähalli, 2,372 1968 Pasi Räsänen IPK Iisalmi Kankaan jäähalli, 1,358 1966 Niko Härkönen JoKP Joensuu PKS Areena, 4,800 1953 Kari Martikainen Ketterä Imatra Imatra Spa Areena, 1,200 1957 Tuomo Ropo KeuPa HT Keuruu Keuruun Jäähalli, 1,100 1995 Tomas Westerlund K-Espoo Espoo Espoo Metro Areena, 6,982 2018 Kim Hirschovits K-Vantaa Vantaa Trio Areena, 2,004 1994 Mika Niskanen KOOVEE Tampere Tampere Ice Stadium, 7,300 1929 Vesa Viitakoski Peliitat Heinola Versowood Areena, 2,686 1984 Hannes Hyvönen RoKi Rovaniemi Lappi Areena, 3,500 1979 Maso Lehtonen SaPKo Savonlinna Talvisalo ice rink, 2,833 1929 Niko Eronen 7.10.2021 Juho Nykänen TUTO Hockey Turku Kupittaan jäähalli, 3,000 1929 Antti Virtanen
Regular season
Rules for classification: 1) Points-per-game; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Penalty minutes.
Playoffs Playoffs are being played in four stages. Wild-card round is a best-of-3 series, with the quarter-finals, the semifinals and the final being best-of-7 series. The teams are reseeded after the first two stages, so that the best team by regular season performance to make the quarter-finals and the semifinals faces the worst team in the corresponding stage.
Bracket
Wild-card round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal game
Finals
Relegation The bottom four teams will face the top two teams from Suomi-sarja in a double round-robin format. The four best placed get a place in Mestis for the next season.
Final rankings Ketterä K-Espoo RoKi4 FPS5 JoKP6 KeuPa HT7 Hokki8 IPK9 Hermes10 K-Vantaa11 TUTO Hockey12 SaPKo13 Peliitat14 KOOVEE
References
External links Mestis Mestis on eurohockey.com Mestis on eliteprospects.com